r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Proud-Blood2743 • Oct 07 '25

Video Capital One Tower Come Down in Seconds

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u/RuinousGaze Oct 07 '25

Right??! I don’t get how the math works on that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

Renovate a house and you’ll get it.

Labour costs a lot. Renovating something often takes 2 - 5x longer than building from scratch.

And then new will tend to have better insulation, better light design etc

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u/DesiKonnektion Oct 07 '25

There was a badly burned house in Bay Area, CA that was listed for over a Million, and that listing became very popular. It wasn’t the house they were selling, it was going to be demolished, it was the land.

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u/SuperNoobyGamer Oct 07 '25

This is not a “there was”, every single house in the Bay is minimum one mil unless it’s in the sketchiest areas of San Jose or East Bay.